This is an update of my first mini-review. I had just gotten back from what I was convinced at the time was the worst movie of all time. I was so excited I immediately emailed my fellow nerd the following:
"This is absolutely the worst movie I've ever paid money to see - and I've paid to see Jumpin' Jack Flash and Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion!
The first two acts are bad "Seven" rip off, which is fine, I was bored, but able to entertain myself by tolling up the shots ripped off from better movies. However, the third act is transcendant in how horrible it is. The only, and I mean only, skill the director displayed is that I figured out the killer in the first 30 seconds, then he had me thinking it was someone else for a while. In the end, my initial instincts were correct.
Go see this movie!!!!"
What a rave!
Since then, I have gone out of my way to see the rest of the Saw movies, drawn in by trying to figure out if I would have been able to get out of the traps and the increasingly Byzantine plots. You have to give the writers some credit, being able to get six more movies out of series where the main character died in the second movie. By the fifth one, I was completely lost, but kept at it.
